Vitaly Bianchi was and remains one of the most beloved, kind and humane children's writers. 'Translators from the wordless' - so he called himself and his associates, writing about the life of animals. Most of all, Bianchi loves to talk about those animals that anyone can meet in their garden, on the banks of a neighboring river, in the forests and fields of the northern and central Russian strip of our Motherland. In the short dialogue 'The Fox and the Mouse' Vitaliy Bianchi accurately and simply explains the relationship of these animals in nature. The artistic word of the writer reveals to the young reader a picture of the surrounding nature, answers his questions. The simple dramaturgy of 'The Fox and the Mouse' easily turns into a child's game. The remarkable Soviet artist Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov created a bright, unique world of fairy-tale images, close and understandable to every child.